1960-05-18 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1960.

WOMANSENSE

LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

AQUARIUS (January 21. February 19); By being too openly acquisitive, you cannot help but antagonise people who are satisfied with what they have.. PISCES (February 20-Murch

20): Your greatest success will be attained" by con- centrating on practical matters and leaving theory' to others. ARIES (March 21-April 19): By devoting some spare time to community activi- ties you will be able to establish a number of useful contacts,

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Even though you may be under the impression that your efforts are not fully appreciated, you must main- tain faith in your ability and not lose heart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Don't let unexpected

un

sum of money make you lose your sense of propor tion. Spend it wisely and keep some for a later day.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

OUTH looked at his hard and

SOUTH at his thought

was to ask what the bonus for five aces in one hand was and then he had a better iden. He deo'ded to bid the hand eventually contracted for grand slam in hearts,

and the

West doubled and South re- doubled. He could handle that king of trumps if it were only once guarded,

West opened a spade and South won the trick. Then he played his Arst ace of hearts

both and when

opponents followed he was home. The only heart left apparently was the king.

He played a few tricks in the side suits for purposes of con- fusion and then led out his

• second ace of trumps.

West looked puzzled for a

WEST

Q10864 KK2

+J9

4788

NORTH 475

7654

+ XB02

KQ9

EAST

AXJ932

3

♦ 10 5 4 3 107 2

SOUTH (D) AA

AAQJ10 9 8-

•AQ7 A4

Both vulnerable

South

West

2

Pass 3 V

North Eat

Pass

7*

Pass Past

Double Pass Pass Opening lead-★ €

Redble Pass

moment, "Dǝggene !! I thought that was a sure trick," he re- maiked before producing the king at hearts.

Then he chuckled a bit him- self and added, "But I know this is April Fool's Day. You had

better find a third ace of trumps som where it you want to make this tend because I was dealt erking."

CARD Sense♣♦

Q-The bidding has been:

North

14

East 2+ ZA Pass

South 2❤ 7

West

Pass

You, South, hold:

4QPS, VAQ987 465 432

What do you do?

A-Bid three spades. If you Want to overbid a trifle and jump

ta four I have no erliicism.

TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding two spades your partner rebids to three clubs. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

CANCER (June 22-July 21);|

Your temporary financial worry will soon pass; mean- time don't brood over it, but take it in your stride. LEO (July 22-August 21): A person born under Scorpio may give you a rather difficult time, unless you succeed in keeping him at a proper distance. VIRGO (August

September 22): Your de- sire to visit distant places will be stimulated by a travel book, and there is a strong possibility that your dream will come true. LIBRA

22-

(September 23- October 22) A purely personal matter may occupy some of your time today. Don't discuss it with even your best friend. SCORPIO (October 23. November 21); If you feel that B Tomance

cannot possibly end in a way satis- factory to both parties, the sooner you break it up the less heartache you will

cause.

SAGITTARIUS (November

22-December 21): Don't re- fuse to listen to the view- points of others, even though you have no inten- tion of letting them change your mind.

| CAPRICORN

(December 22- January 20): Although your first impression of a new acquaintance may not be too promising, you will lind after a few meetings that you have enough in common to be worth cultivating.

YOUR LUCKY CARD:

If

today is your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what

muy be game you playing, ought to be the FIVE of CLUBS.

FASHION NEWS-FOCUS

by BARBARA GRIGGS

Beware...that little white dress can be spiteful!

Crisp white cotton for a Houncy dance-dress banded with eyelet embroidery: for contrast, shoe-string straps and sash are olive green satin. By Rhona Roy,

French silhouettes are

fashion chameleons

trends ftare from a point round the

DOMINA Tom Tenis hipbonts.

collections of the new de cade show a relaxed waist- line in variations of the princess, the tunic and the chemise silhouettes,

་

from rounded shoulder to sup- The overall mood is soft,

Dateline:

By PECGY MASSIN

THE things that make a summer memorable vary from world-shattering to delightfully trite. You may remember those long days because the weather was blue and hot and beautiful.

Or because you went abroad for the first time. Or because you did your first high dive.

3

There is certain to be this tubbable, while amateur psycho- summer, however, one pheno- logists are blaming. It on meno likely to stay in the sudden desire among women to mind: it will be the summer lock sweetly young again. when all the girls were sud-

denly wearing white,

Outselling the Paisleys, IN

outselling the

Wistful

memory

every woman's favourite there lurks, wistfully, a pic-

washed-out pastels, outselling

even the ginghams this year, is ture of herself in her first long duare-dress: Ineffably pretty, ethereally youthful, invariably white,

a legion of white dresses.

Shirtwalsters in ruffled lawn

or airy Dacron, cocktail dresses in permanently pleated white Trizel jersey or fresh

cotton pique, and young girls' dresses In demure dotted white, volle, und sheath dresses in broidered white linen.

Reeling

a

em-

THERE isn't dress Arm

without at least one all- white dress in its collection and that dress is high up among the bestsellers, and very often top of them all,

Women seem to have shed all their old frálbitions about white,

Maybe it's the prospect of

Just dresses.

Warn well, white is one of the most shameless batterers out; worn wrong, it is coldly spiteful to its wearer,

It looks marvellous on women with spotless skins, on women with shining, newly-washed hair, on women with a fine gold tan.

so good on It doesn't look women with bad complexions, on women whose make-up is slapdash or peeling or loaded on with a palette-knife, on women with lank hair that hasn't been washed for a week.

Natural

a hot summer, maybe they're TT'S a natural for a teenager; tired of patterned equally, it can look wonder- olber ful on a woman the side of forty (like the Begum Top seller at the moment. Khan, drawing all eyes at Ascot is the white cotton sheath dress; in a white lace dress).

next best seller is a shirt. waister in white broderie anglaise, And American Dacrons are now at a premium.

On a very young girl, while with a dash of pink-a sash, a rose, satin shoes dyed pink, a rose-coloured grab-bag is Some attribute this mania for classically appealing. white to Parts pressure last winter -white coats,

white

On an older woman it's a tire- evening dresses, white sweaters; some cliche to be avoided: and others to the fact that white mixed with terra-cotta with almost all the white dresses are brown, white contrasted

Paris

ple, unpressed hemline. Skirts Coat and jacket sleeves con- little

Victorian "combing" stay short in both wide pleated tinue deep-set roomy culs, jackets, made of tulle or face versions and narrow sheaths, worked in rectangular and and covered with embroidery, ranging from 19 to 20 inches kimono styles. Shoulder width Other evening gowns bring in a above the floor. Two fiered is achieved by means of cut Yves St Laurent, evolves skirts and bloused tunic treat rather than by padding. oppositions in long torso, merls are used by Dior, Cardin, effects which bypass the end Ricci in effects which cul. natural waistline or features the silhouette horizontally. the lightly curved princess dress with loose back and high

got concave treatment under the bosom.

Paris collection is pleating.

A salient feature in every

It

Evening

charac.

Formal clothes are terised by clinging, light-weight fabrics evolved in two leading may appear in straight, narrow silhouettes: The sinuous sheath sheaths or in voluminous sun which slides gently down the burst skirts. Jules Francois body and

ball Soft and rounded

the vaporous Crahay scores another hit for dresses derived from the Nina Ricci with the young, full princess silhouette. Among the themes include skirted Other Paris.

"gipsy" silhouette, most beguiling are Dior's car- the pear-shape silhouette, with obtained by intricate, pleated digan evening dresses, with emphasis placed round the treatments which use so much casual styling contrasted by hipline, beneath the loose, fabric that petticoats and under- glittebbaa embroidery. A model chemise-inspired bodice, Hips skirts have been eliminated.

of palest pink tulle has a wide are swollen and arched in puffy -

Neckline: lampshade skirts.

and fringe of ostrich feathers round high most often collarless, cut the low waist line. In other models, the low line after the pattern of halter In a more stylised mood, Yves marked by gored skirts which and "sun"

are

tops at Dior. Saint Laurent shows charming

touch of the East, with split- seam kattan and tunic dresses with borders of golf thread em- broidery in delicate Eastern patterns.

Paradoxically, many of the most exotle formal fashions in Paris are destined for quiet "evenings at home." Television and fireside clothes at Dior are a gay as costumes from the Folies Bergere and are in- dicative of Saint Laurent's new interest in designing for the stage. There are embroi- dered knee breeches and torreador panis worn under huge puffy overskiria and tied on round the waist like an apron, Hostess gowns are cut like carl dresses or whimsical harem skirts.

STORIES FOR BOYS

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Chris Goes Visiting

-He Has A Hard Time Getting To His Friends-

"W

By MAX TRELL

"Oh dear!" said Hanid, "And did you have to climb all the way up that steeple to see the Coon?"

"I certainly did,” said Chris- topher. "It took me An hour "Christopher! How can you to get up, hopping one step at say such a thing!" Hanid said. a time, and half an hour to get

"Me?

What did I -661 JELL,” SAID Christopher

say?" down again, hopping two steps Cricket to, Knart and Christopher asked.

at a time. Then, when I was Hanid, "I paid some visits last *You said you didn't have finally on the ground, I deced night .to old friends. And I can tell you it was quite a lot of hard work."

Rupert and the Snowstorm-26

When Ruper has taken off his journey, Aa the story proceeda shoes: Mrs. Bear: tooks ar the tine Bear par and more

"Whose are guriously

they? nervous "Let's show them to >the Daddy, she says. Have you borrowed them?" she

And you asks Yes. 1'had in," answers thal hima The pedicine you

give Hupert. They're magic boots brought. But when Rupert peeps into his little carrier to take they were." And he tells her all about the Sorcerer and the out the medicine, a look of dismay (magu: - circle and his difficult comes over his face,

ALL NIGHTS RESERVED

much fun visiting your friends,"

and told Christopher, "Oh, not I didn't say that!" Christopher exclaimed.

Always has fun

"I like my friends, Hanid! I do! I do!"

Here Knarf broke in. "He didn't say that he didn't like visiting them."

to visit Blinky Mole

"Blinky lives under the ground?" said Knarf,

Chris Cricket visited kis friend, Blinky Mols,

have

the high gloss of black patent, white with grass green or bitter yellow is that much fresher on the eye.

Airy voile, vertically striped, for an all-white shirt- waister: by London Town. Pictures by David McCabe.

THERE'S only one way that white looks hopelessly, 1- Irredeemably wrong-so wrong that not a man who sees it will fail to notice, And that is when it is percepilbly not quite as white as it should be,...

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"Of course! And deep under the ground, too," Christopher went on. "So, after climbing up' the talicst steeple in town, climb down to the bottom Boor of the deepest underground house in town! That took me another hour-and-a-hult down then I visited Blackie Beetle sald

Christopher and up. But Blinky and I had promptly. "I love visiting my a wonderful visit It was fun!" under a rock, and Chirple Spar-

row behind a locse, brick in the PANTIES. White. friends, Only I've got a funny. "And and where did you chimney,, and Hop-a-Long, the Lace trim. set of friends. They live in such go next, Christopher dear?" Grasshopper, in among a field peculiar places that it's hard asked Hanid. work getting to them, mighty bard work. I'm all worn out??

His next visits

of daisies, and finally the last one I visited Christopher Cricket -"

"Now take the Coos, for in-,

"Next" said Christopher. "I "Christopher Cricket! That's went to visit the Quacks. you!" shouted Knarf and Hanid. stance Christopher begar,

“They're Ducks and, they live on "I know I just fically decided, "Who are the Coos?" Hamid the pond. I had to row all the I was too tired to visit anyone way across the pond and back élse so I just visited myself. And interrupted.

AMENTI I knew just where to find roe. "Don't you know? They're again.

a family of Pigeons," answered Then I visited Squire Squire I was right here, It wasn't any Christopher. They live on the rel and I had to jump from trouble at all!"

top floor of the tallest steeple branch to branch of the maple And Christopher, uncrossed his in the whole town

tree to catch up with him, and Ave or six legs and uplled,

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